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I like most of these. I don't get this one: Compassion is contempt with a human face.

• maw 19y ago
  I think it means that a compassionate person assumes the people he's compassionate towards are incapable of bettering themselves, and thus contemptible. I'm not sure whether I agree or not, but my first guess is that it's sometimes true and sometimes not. Deep, huh?
  • suboptimal 19y ago
    I think your interpretation is spot-on, but I disagree with the quote. I suspect the author is defining compassion more like "pity" than "patience and understanding" (sympathy, by definition).
• jrockway 19y ago
  As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture. This one amuses me, but I don't get it.
  • drios 19y ago
    Imho : A picture worth 1000 words, so 1picture = 1000w, 1001w > 1000w => 1001w > 1picture
    • jrockway 19y ago
      Right, but what is the relationship to the Chinese?
      • drios 19y ago
        A picture worth 1000 words is a Chinese proverb, and you can inference from it the 1001 words sentence, so it's a Chinese proverb too.